I have been working at Ford Motor Company full-time (more than 5 years)

Pros

A long history, Henry Ford. All the benefits are available to employees. Pay is competitive.

Cons

Benefits are totally below average. They are not competitive. I see engineers around me leaving for GM every week. Especially annual profit sharing bonuses are less than 50% of GM. Every year Ford generates more profits than GM, but the company will find any excuse possible to cut down the profit sharing money to salaried employees even after yearly target is way lower than competitors. Funny. They can't do that to UAW.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Remember. Unhappy engineers are inefficient! We know our annual bonuses are less than 50% of GM while all the upper managements take huge profit sharing money. Our loyalty to the company is getting thin. Maybe time to move.

I have been working at Ford Motor Company full-time (more than 10 years)

Pros

Pay is competitive. New hires rotate in different departments to learn new things.

Cons

Annual bonus is not competitive. The worst in auto industry for salaried employees. Employees feel they are cheated after they see only CEO or VPs or directors take a big chunk of annual profit sharing money while salaried employees are getting less than half of what GM salaried employees get. Disappointing.

I have been working at Ford Motor Company full-time (more than 8 years)

Pros

You are paid even with very little work.

Cons

Based on Detroit Free Press on Feb, 23, 2015, Ford generates $995 profit per vehicle whereas GM generates $650 per vehicle. Ford has a less number of salaried employees than GM. But, Ford distributes to salaried employees half the annual bonuses GM distributes to salaried employees. Ford is a stingy company. Ford is generous only to UAW and upper managements. That is why only average Joe engineers stay at Ford.

I have been working at Ford Motor Company full-time (more than 3 years)

Pros

If you are a line assembly worker, this is the best company to work for in auto industry because their hourly rate, $58, is the industry best.

Cons

If you are a salaried employee, this is the worst company to work for in auto industry because your benefits and compensations will be the worst in the same industry. And to make it worse, it is getting worse.

I have been working at Ford Motor Company full-time (more than 8 years)

Pros

There are lots of old employees. College graduates have rotation in product development departments, but most of time, it is a waste of time killing hours because other engineers are so busy.

Cons

You can't expect any promotion unless you have a British accent. No matter how good performance you did, you will get only 2% raise at most every year. There are thousands of middle and upper managers, directors, vice presidents. I was shocked to see there are so many VPs in a company. No wonder engineers get very little profit sharing bonuses every year while VPs and directors are getting millions of bonuses.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Do you really need that many directors and VPs? If you remove just 10 directors and VPs who are just killing time, you can improve engineers' benefit tremendously.

I have been working at Ford Motor Company full-time (more than 8 years)

Pros

Compensation is inferior to other competitors like GM, so engineers either leave or just don't make good effort to develop cars. Employees' brothers, sisters, husbands work for other competitors, so they are well aware they are compensated below average by the company beginning from annual bonus, health insurance, and to other benefits like life or disability insurance.

Cons

There are just too many engineers idling on their desks doing nothing. It is just company's fault. Unhappy engineers are inefficient. So obvious. There is no promotions. I see everyday many engineers are searching for job openings at GM, which go fast because there are so many engineers in the waiting line. I was one of them, and now I am very pleased to make the decision to leave this company.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

I wish the company could have treated the engineers better with competitive annual bonuses (AICP), better health insurance policy. The company is really short sighted. They might think they can save some money by shortchanging the engineers, but eventually that comes back and haunts the company because many quality engineers keep leaving the company for GM. Who would stay if they know they get only 5K dollars as annual bonuses when their friends at GM get 11k dollars as annual bonuses?I understand manufacturing automobiles are quite a complicated process, but still there are too many cost-ineffective managers and upper managers.The company also don't project the future well. There are so underwhelming cars like MKT or Flex that nobody buys. Nobody understands who approved these vehicle programs in the first place. Ironically those who approved these programs receive millions of dollars as annual bonuses and free company cars. Only ground soldiers like GSR employees work hard and bring paltry annual bonuses home. Shame, shame.